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That urgent query could be the search for a message within a short passage or a story, something to motivate the reader touse that message to better his day or week; an emotional catharsis which will lift his mood for days to come.

Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robisonmay have been the most minimalist of them all -- or, touse the word she hassaid she prefers to describethenarrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist."